00:00 The Department of Migrant Workers closed a consultancy firm
00:04 that illegally recruits cargo and cruise ships in the middle of the ocean.
00:08 The owner of the firm quickly escaped.
00:11 Here is my lesson.
00:13 The Department of Migrant Workers or DMW was warned
00:20 that a consultancy firm in Parañaque will accept it.
00:23 When it was surveilled, it was found that it is involved in illegal recruitment.
00:27 The consultancy services, when they recruit,
00:31 how do we know if they are recruiting?
00:34 When they interview, choose, hire employees,
00:41 they take care of the money, process documents,
00:46 refer to a recruitment agency, this is a recruitment process.
00:51 According to DMW, this office is accepting applicants
00:55 who want to be crew members of cargo and cruise ships in the Middle East.
00:59 The promised salary is less than P100,000.
01:02 But before the applicant processes the documents,
01:04 they will first be charged a placement fee that is prohibited according to DMW.
01:08 Seafarers should not be charged a placement fee.
01:12 Their operation has been going on for more than a year.
01:15 So there are complainants, victims, and we are receiving a lot of statements.
01:19 Elias Rambo, a Visayas resident, was charged with a replacement fee.
01:24 But after being paid, he did not receive an update on his position as a deck officer.
01:30 We want to do it as a marine licensee.
01:34 Of course, you will pay the fee.
01:37 I gave P120,000. After seven months, nothing happened.
01:43 It was evident at first, but he still insisted.
01:46 When you are interviewed, they will tell you to claim that you have officially been hired,
01:52 so that you can be approved by the principal.
01:55 DMW's client, the owner and manager of a consultancy services firm, was charged.
01:59 DMW tried to get him a plate, but he could only hear that there are police outside the office.
02:07 The owner quickly went out.
02:09 He crossed and went down the center island and walked like a fool.
02:15 DMW will refer this case to the PNP.
02:18 For GMA Integrated News, Emil Sumangil reporting for 24 Hours.
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